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Troy Cefaratti wrote:
>
> Of course, your larger papers would have this equipment. :) My experience
> is with small weekly newspapers though, which tend to get printed on
> whatever press will take them! ;)
True... My knowledge is definitely limited to large newspapers (Boston
Globe which I toured, and the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune
which were the main papers my sister was involved in).
I must say though, it is sometimes interesting seeing how broad some
companies product lines are. She was working for FMC at the time. FMC
used to stand for something like Food Machinery Corporation - they made
something like 70-90% of the baby food processing equipment. They also
make/made railroad cars (Railbox (TM) for one, also a tank car I think),
tanks (M113 APC and Bradley [I'm bummed that she never got me a nice
Bradley jacket like she had]), and cranes (I think they've now sold
those, they were made by Linkbelt, which was the same group which did
the paper handling equipment - I still very quickly notice Linkbelt
cranes when I pass them).
Frank
> Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > Troy Cefaratti wrote in message ...
> > > They WILL have them, because it's cheaper for them to waste the end of • the
> > > roll then to have to stop and start the press in the middle of a run to
> > > change the roll (as this would cause them to waste paper on ALL the rolls
> > > since it takes a while to get the presses up to speed and putting out • clean
> > > copies).
> >
> >
> > Although many newspapers glue a new roll onto the old while the press is
> > running (I think it was when I toured the Boston Globe, and we got a • little
> > extra detailed tour of the pressroom because my sister, who had worked on
> > some automated paper handling for newspapers, was with us, that they told • us
> > about the special glues they had to come up with to dry fast enough to • take
> > the force applied by the press in pulling the paper). Sometimes you get • the
> > paper which was printed on the seam, though those are generally supposed • to
> > be discarded. The presses usually have a spindle with 3 rolls of paper (in
> > use, on deck, being changed [obviously not the correct technical terms]).
> >
> > At our newspaper, you can get shredded newspaper (I think they sell it).
> > They sell a lot of it for mulch and lining animal stalls (they changed to • an
> > organic ink within the past 10 years to make this type of use safer). I • once
> > picked up a van load of paper for a friend, and it was almost a year • before
> > I stopped finding strips of paper in the van.
> >
> > Frank
> >
> >
> >
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